Michelle Obama uses cuss word in NY

NEW YORK/LONDON Michelle Obamaspontaneously used a cuss word — and people lost it. Obama said the belief that women can “have it all” was “a lie,” and, in a reference to Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s “leaning in” strategy, said, “It’s not always enough to lean in because that s*** doesn’t work all the time.”

The former US first lady was speaking at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, promoting her recently released memoir, Becoming.

And on Monday, Obama returned to a London school she had visited as first lady, encouraging students to “practice sisterhood”. Obama is in the British capital to promote Becoming, which has already sold more copies than any other book published in the US this year.

She told some 300 students — mostly girls aged between 11and 18 — at a north London school that her past visit there as first lady in 2009 had inspired her to work for better education.

“I was moved, touched and inspired as I always am by young people I meet around the world,” said the 54-year-old mother of two and first African American first lady. “You reminded me of me, all the fears, the challenges you face. You guys gave me asense of comfort.”